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The art of the golden age reprint seems to survive in the UK. I've seen reprints of obscure Australian books from the 40s and 50s listed on eBay. I bought one, and it's really high quality, with glossy card covers and excellent paper stock. I'm not sure that anyone but dyed in the wool existing fans would want them though.

Beautiful books Mr Duck. But I think the first Scrooge cover appearance was actually FC #353:

I've been looking pretty hard the past three years. I've seen more than one copy of a few books (Planet 6, Kaanga 25 and Jungle 17 come to mind) but only one copy each of most of them in that time. A few times I've passed on really low grade copies of books I haven't seen again. I know there are a few collections out there - komickazi here on the boards has an amazing set - but they don't surface much. While I'm here, this Rangers has an Australian-unique cover too.

Sounds like an excuse for a group shot! I have precisely none of the first ten Jumbos, but eight higher numbers. here are my Jungles and Jumbos: And here are the other FH titles. I've bought almost every issue that has come up for sale (at least that I've seen) in the past few years to amass this lot. If you want to see the individual scans, they are all in a gallery I set up:

Ah, I'd forgotten about this thread. I'll add one more aviation photo reference to the list. (The photo has been reversed to get the match.)

OK, for a change of pace here's an American book. I put "a Baker romance comic" on my wants list years ago, then watched prices soar. I thought I'd missed that train, until I spotted this one at the right price point. There seems to be a bit of theme in this issue. Between farm girls and the proverbial coal miner's daughter, it seems that the gals of the rust belt are feeling their oats...

That's a very nice copy Cheetah. Until recently I thought the Jumbos only ran up to #38 or so. Then I found this one: I also found a #48 when I went looking online, and updated the GCD listings to reflect that.

I'm told that sometimes Australian publishers also printed comics for the New Zealand market. That provides a plausible explanation if they were for different markets. That said, if you look at the issues I posted, the issue numbers are "new series 11" and "new series 13" which suggests it was intended to tell the customer that it was a different run. Who knows?

Yes, for all three the publisher was H. John Edwards. 1949 series 1951 series 1956 series

Whenever you like, thank you. They would certainly end up in an appreciative home.

And some Australian originals. I really like the Silver Flash covers. And another appearance on this thread for the Crimson Comet.

Here are a few recent pickups. Starting with some Australian reprints of US material.

One last Australian GA book before I show off a few furriners. This is an unusually nice Crimson Comet. Even the little 'chip' top left was still there when I looked closely, and has since been carefully unfolded and pressed into place. John Dixon invented the CC, but he only drew the eralier and later issues in the 70+ book run. This one is credited to Albert De Vine in Bonzer. He wasn't the draughtsman Dixon was.

Why yes, yes I do. Still looking for the right #35 though...

Great to see you back here. Your willingness to share images of your wonderful collection was a real asset to the boards. Hopefully you'll find it worthwhile to stick around.

Graded out at 7.0! Thankfully it was not in the grading contest...

Well, this thread was a roaring success, wasn't it? At least the OP managed to whip up a posse after all!

Here's another one. There are also at least three of these, though this one had a different #9 (which was the first...)

Here's an odd one. This book was published four times by the same publisher, with the issue number and price the only changes. Issues #76-79 are the same book. (And there are no previous issues!) The GCD only has images of three though. From memory #76 is a shilling issue before the 12c #77, which places them in 1965 and 1966. My theory on these is that they were printed every year for inclusion in 'show bags' - literally a bag with candy, toys and comics that you could buy at travelling fairs (or 'shows' in Oz speak). There are a few other examples. I don't know of any with more than four though.